Abortion Restrictions Could Cause an Ob-Gyn Brain Drain

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June 29, 2022

Reproduction Abortion Restrictions Could Cause an Ob-Gyn Brain Drain With Roe v. Wade overturned, banning abortion in many states could lead to a large number of ob-gyns avoiding practicing there or failing to receive crucial medical training By Monique Brouillette

Climate Change U.S. Retreats from Pledge to End Gas Investments The energy crisis caused by Russia's war in Ukraine is testing Western leaders' promises to phase out natural gas financing abroad By Sara Schonhardt,E&E News

Culture How Indigenous Groups Are Using 3-D Technology to Preserve Ancient Practices To safeguard fragile cultural objects, some groups are replicating them with digital models By Rachel Parsons

Artificial Intelligence Who Is Liable when AI Kills? We need to change rules and institutions while still promoting innovation to protect people from faulty AI By George Maliha,Ravi B. Parikh

Renewable Energy Renewable Energy Is Surging, but Trouble Looms The International Energy Agency projects that spending on renewables in 2022 will exceed the record $440 billion invested last year By Benjamin Storrow,E&E News

Space Exploration NASA's Tiny CAPSTONE CubeSat Launches on Pioneering Moon Mission The spacecraft will arrive in lunar orbit in mid-November to help prepare for a future moon-orbiting outpost By Mike Wall,SPACE.com

Politics Gunshot Survivors and Trauma Surgeons Welcome the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act After a chaotic week in which gun safety measures were struck down by the Supreme Court and enacted by Biden, the time to act is now By Joseph V. Sakran

Epidemiology This AI Tool Could Predict the Next Coronavirus Variant The model, which uses machine learning to track the fitness of different viral strains, accurately predicted the rise of Omicron's BA.2 subvariant and the Alpha variant By Sara Reardon

Mathematics Mathematicians Are Trying to 'Hear' Shapes An intriguing question about drums kicked off decades of inquiry By Rachel Crowell

FROM THE STORE Ask the Brains, Part 1: 55 Mysteries of the Mind People behave in strange ways. We sometimes giggle when someone falls down, swear we've been to places we haven't or continue believing in something despite scientific evidence to the contrary. For more than a decade, Scientific American MIND's long-running feature "Ask the Brains" has addressed questions from our readers on the quirks and quandaries of human behavior, psychology and neurology. Here in Ask the Brains, Part 1 we've compiled some of the best and most interesting inquiries about the human brain.

FROM THE ARCHIVE The Science of Abortion Rights Safe and accessible reproductive health care is a basic right that is supported by science, medicine and respect for human dignity | May 2022

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